Creative Sync

(3 sessions / 90 min each)

$125 / person

(Includes $25 materials fee)

Level: All

Dates: Contact me

reserve a date for your group up to 6 participants

Explore the elements & principles of design through “happenstancial”, open-ended art activities: spin art, pour painting, collaging and monotypes.

At the end of the Creative Sync class, participants will have a framed collage and colorful Zen Litmus creations made along the way.

Play with studio activities to stay loose, have fun, and let inspiration in! This class is designed to activate your play instinct, and to stretch participants’ understanding of various materials, tools & preferences for personal expression.

Possible Side Effects:

Increased joy, creative confidence & risk taking.

Zen Litmus Creations

Derangements

A bouquet-collage arranged with your colorful creations. Dial in your smile as you add, subtract or simply rearrange these bright elements.

(Suggested class: Spin Art; Creative Sync; Monoprints)

Inklings

Much like a flower, these bright peek-a-boo’s are a boost for you or someone you cherish.

(Suggested Class: Spin Art; Creative Sync)

Pocket Panaceas

These homemade books are the size of a matchbook and fit in the palm of your hand. A colorful place to capture haikus, sketches, and doodles in your every day life.

(Suggested class: Creative Sync)

Comfort Art

Happenstance-art-making that requires colorful art supplies and you. Any simple art activity that shakes out the cobwebs and allows you to shift into a flow state.

Spin Art

Spin Art Class

$79 Group/Family of Four

Ages: 6 and up

Level: ALL

(Class offered pond-side, in the garden, weather permitting, June through October. During winter months, classes are held in our home studio.)

contact me directly, For up to 6 participants in winter months.

it’s all about color, creating, and connecting.

Enjoy creating spin art while relaxing in our garden or home studio setting.

this is comfort art at its best.

Bring a snack or beverage of your choice and unwind with your friends.

I’ll supply aprons, paints, inks & papers, and a brief set of instructions and you’ll be on your way to miles of smiles.

Printing Monotypes

Creating raw materials / Play-it-forward materials

(3 sessions / 90 min each)

$110 / person

(Includes $25 materials fee)

Level: ALL

Dates:

This class is currently being offered as a sampling in the Creative Sync Class.

Create simple, monotype prints using Gelli Plates. In this class we experiment with color mixing; creating stencils and masks; and play with mark making.

Each print is a one of a kind creation. You will explore and come away with an abundance of colorful, raw materials to use in further creative play.

Play it Forward

 Glossary of Zen Litmus

Zen Litmus:

Creative Calibration through comfort art. A series of simple, no-skills-required creative activities that will activate the play instinct using, color, texture, and shape. All of us need a little nudge into a peace-filled liminal space in order to let go of life’s everyday to-do’s and to reconnect with our joyful selves.

Comfort art:

No-skills-required art making, such as doodling, spin art, paint pouring, the list goes on and on. When I’m in my studio and just need an activity to help me shift into an open mindset, comfort art activities are what I do in order to open up, shake the cobwebs, and shift into a flow state of mind.

Catalyst:

In science, a catalyst is something that is added to bring about a change. In Zen Litmus art making, the catalyst is you. The joy when you play with art supplies has a bubbly outcome.

Play It Forward:

A class that is predominately creating raw materials. The fun of this type of class is the joy in creating open ended, colorful morsels with which to further tinker.

Psst! Typically there’s a piece of frame-able art that comes out of every class.

Pocket Panaceas:

A colorful place to capture haikus, sketches, and doodles from your everyday. These little homemade books are the size of a matchbook and fit right into the palm of your hand and/or your pocket so that you may take them anywhere and use them anytime. Open it up and it sparks a smile! (Classes to take: Spin Art; Doodle & Assembly Class)

Derangements:

This collage-bouquet is a simple way to dial in your smile as you add, subtract or rearrange the colorful elements that you’ve concocted with friends. Having a Derangement nearby is a sure way to supply a quick mental boost. (Classes to take: Spin Art; Paint Pour; Doodle & Assembly Class)

Inklings:

A hug on a stick! Much like a flower, these bright peek-a-boo’s are a boost for you or someone you cherish. (Class to take: Spin Art)